talking about plea bargaining. defendants are involved and defense attorneys have involved in the plea bargaining process, but not in a way that gives them very much say so, and i'll explain why. so i talked before about the charging function. well, very closely connectedded to that is plea bargaining. we have a system of justice where americans think there's all these trials going on in courtrooms and criminal courtrooms around the country watching law and gored, the television shows, and, well, the more trials going on in tv shows than there are in real life. we don't have a lot of trials going on, but we have a lot of guilty pleas. about 95% of all criminal cases are resolved by way of a guilty plea, not a trial, and the way it worked is this. the prosecutor brings the charges, as i mentioned before. the prosecutor has a lot of discretion in deciding what to charge, and the example about the cocaine, for example, that prosecutor can charge a felony, but if they want, it can be a dismirren. there's overcharging where they pile on charges because it's very easy to bring a charge; righ